[HOW-TO] CentOS on bhyve

2014-03-07 Thread Rudy (bulk)
A customer wanted CentOS, so I tried doing it like I did my Ubuntu install --- no luck with the grub loading up automatically. Here is basically what I did ... it works, but I get all these odd characters in my terminal (if I hit tab, I can guess at the menu items and successfully make it

Re: [HOW-TO] CentOS on bhyve

2014-03-07 Thread Rudy (bulk)
On 3/7/14, 11:31 PM, Rudy (bulk) wrote: Peter, anyway to get grub-bhyve to automatically load /grub/grub.conf from a CentOS install? This didn't do it... I just read the --help and found --directory, but that doesn't seem to work: grub-bhyve --directory=/grub -r hd0,msdos1 -m vm2.map

NEEDS TESTING - rc script for bhyve

2014-02-28 Thread Rudy (bulk)
OK, I did test it a bit. Really, I wanted something short to automate booting, but I ran into some issues that ballooned up the script. Things I put into the script: 0 - does no provisioning, I only want a start/stop script 1 - adds vmtab for configuring VMs 2 - supports grub loader 3 -

[SOLVED] Re: lazy bhyve doesn't boot until I conenct to console

2014-02-27 Thread Rudy (bulk)
On 2/27/14, 11:08 PM, Peter Grehan wrote: Hi Rudy, I'm seeing something odd... I am running this command: bhyve -c 4 -m 2048M -H -P -A -s 0:0,hostbridge -s 1:0,lpc -s 2,virtio-net,tap1 -s 3,virtio-blk,/dev/zvol/data/vm1 -l com1,/dev/nmdm1A vm1 but I the VM is being lazy... A number of